Of all the places a person keeps their phone strapped to them — in the car, the bathroom, on their desk at work — using your phone at the gym seems to make sense. Your epic gym playlist is on your phone; ... Continue Reading
What It Means To ‘Line Up Your Structure’ In Training
If you've spent any amount of time at the gym, you've probably noticed people performing exercises with improper form. Perhaps their grip is too wide on the lat pulldown to target their lats effectively, ... Continue Reading
How to Find Your 1-Rep Max (Calculator Included)
In strength training, a one-rep max (1RM) is about much more than bragging rights. Knowing the maximum amount of weight you can lift isn't just about getting likes on Instagram. A 1RM is a landmark for ... Continue Reading
9 Nostalgic and Motivating Workout Montages
There are a few things that Hollywood just never seems to get right. Telephone etiquette, computer “hacking” and, perhaps chief among the most commonly-defiled actions to grace the silver screen, exercise ... Continue Reading
10 Benefits of the Turkish Get-Up to Elevate Your Entire Lifting Game
It takes a very special kind of exercise to require you to move through more than a half-dozen distinct movements twice per rep. The Turkish get-up does exactly that. While most moves have you raise a ... Continue Reading
What It Really Means to Be a Hip or Knee-Dominant Lifter
The strength training community is obsessed with categorization. From sumo pullers to “snatch specialists,” athletes that work with the barbell seem to adore applying labels and fitting themselves into ... Continue Reading
Does Working Out Without Music Help (or Harm) Your Gains?
When you’re leaving the house before your workout, you’ve got to make sure you’ve assembled all of your gym essentials. From your water bottle to your training journal, you know the things you need to be ... Continue Reading
7 Benefits of Overhead Carries for Unprecedented Strength and Stability
Whether you’re carrying groceries, a backpack, a child, or anything in between, you’re likely hauling something around every day. You may not realize how much muscle activation or stability you need when ... Continue Reading
How to Get in Shape When You’re Constantly Traveling or Shifting Schedules (Brought to You by Future)
Getting in shape is hard enough without time constraints — busy schedules, jobs that require a lot of travel, or who don't know what their schedule will look like ahead of time. If that sounds like your ... Continue Reading
10 Different Ways to Burn 100 Calories Quickly
With the constantly rising popularity of smart watches, it seems like everyone is looking for the next best way to burn calories and stay in shape. However, doing the same thing over and over again because ... Continue Reading
A Look Back at Louie Simmons’ Greatest Achievements and Contributions to Strength Training & Sport
The strength sports community suffered a great loss on March 24, 2022, when legendary powerlifter and coach Louie Simmons passed away at the age of 74. Few people, living or dead, could claim to hold a ... Continue Reading
Fight Right — How to Use Strength Training for Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
Brazilian jiu-jitsu, or BJJ, is having a moment. The grappling-based martial art — which took shape in the 1920s — gained some popularity in the early-90s when BJJ pioneer Royce Gracie dismantled a series ... Continue Reading
The Best Deadlift Warm-Up — How to Prepare for Strong Pulls
If your goal is to build total-body strength, the deadlift deserves to be your bread and butter. A deadlift is a pull from the floor to the hip, and, perhaps most importantly, allows you to work with ... Continue Reading
What to Know About Working Out on Your Period
Even if you love lifting, training consistently can be a challenge. Fluctuations in sleep levels, work stress, relationship dynamics, your mood, your mental health — everything affects your workouts and ... Continue Reading
What is a Cool-Down, and Do You Even Need One?
You only have an hour to dedicate to your gym time today, and you want to spend the bulk of it actually working out. Although you might not want to, you know that warming up properly is essential for ... Continue Reading
The Best (and Worst) Bodybuilding Exercises to Cheat Your Form On
The form police are a diligent bunch. From the deepest reaches of social media comment sections to unwelcome solicitations in the weight room, you can always find someone willing to “help” you with your ... Continue Reading
So…What is a Deload Week and Do You Need One?
You dream about lifting heavy and being on the platform is the best part of your day. All your friends know that your gym time is sacred, and you can barely take a proper rest day without itching for iron. ... Continue Reading
How to (Safely) Miss Your Lifts as a Strength Athlete
You’ve probably heard more than enough quips and quotes about the necessity of failure in the pursuit of your passion. When you’re learning to ride a bike, you’re bound to fall down once or twice, but all ... Continue Reading
Core Training for Weightlifters — How to Become Strong and Stable With the Barbell
Core training is a hot topic across the different disciplines of fitness. Your core (or trunk) is the central pillar of your movement. While you may know the core by its anatomical components, you should ... Continue Reading
Pioneers of Power — These Are Some of the Strongest Women in History
Few questions in the annals of strength history are more difficult to answer than, "who is the strongest woman ever?" In some ways, such a prompt raises more questions of its own. Should you account for ... Continue Reading
What is AMRAP: How to Do it, Benefits, and AMRAP Workouts
You don’t have to be on the leaderboard of your local CrossFit box to integrate AMRAP workouts into your program. This increasingly popular training model — which stands for “as many rounds (or reps) as ... Continue Reading
How to Start Working Out Again After Top Surgery
So you’ve had or are about to have top surgery. If one of the first things on your mind is when you can get back to the gym after top surgery, you probably know that the idea of waiting to be able to work ... Continue Reading
Avoid These Beginner Lifting Mistakes to Save Time & Make More Progress
“Newbie gains” can unfortunately give a false sense of confidence in your first few years of training. Although you’re bound to make a great deal of progress no matter what, prolonging the length of time ... Continue Reading
Feeling Stuck in the Gym? Here’s How to Break Through Weightlifting Plateaus
Weightlifting makes you stronger, but that pathway isn't always linear. Eventually, you'll likely find yourself going longer and longer between new personal records or bigger totals. This is the ... Continue Reading